mod rewrite help needed

[vinpkl]

hi all

i have a url like

description.php ?id=$1

i used rewrite to make it seo friendly

RewriteRule ^product([^/\.]+)?.html$ description.php ?id=$1

it gives me

product7.html

now i want to replace "product" word with dynamic word coming from database like Nokia N95 or LG Viewty

how can i do it.

what should i write in rewrite rule so that it accept dynamic word inplace of "product".

so that my url become

LG-viewty7.html

vineet

[dumm]

RewriteRule ^.*([a-zA-Z\-]+)([0-9]+).html$ description.php?section=$1&id=$2 
 

Where "section" become your dynamic word.

[vinpkl]

@dumm
hi dumm

thanks. thats what i needed.

vineet

[xNephilimx]

dumm solution is right, but is really everything after your domain going to be a product? I reccomend you to do the following:

RewriteRule ^products/([a-zA-Z\-]+)([0-9]+).html$ description.php ?section=$1&id= $2

So the rewritten url will look like products/LG-viewty7.html and you will have no problems if you want, say, add a contact page /contact.html.

Remember, that since a fake subfolder is added, all the relative urls (links, images, etc) should be passed to absolute urls, or else the browsers will try to look any relative url inside the products folder, that doesn't really exists.

[pbmods]

I like to do this because it's much more flexible:

# Virtualize anything that doesn't already exist.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*([a-zA-Z\-]+)([0-9]+).html$ description.php?section=$1&id=$2